Taylor Swift spends her longest run at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week, as her second No.1 “Shake it off” racks up a third consecutive week at the chart pinnacle, passing the two broken weeks her previous chart-topper “Love Story” achieved back in 2009, plus the track is now ▲Platinum in sales too.

Meghan Trainor holds at No.2 for a third week also, but she is in the country this coming week, so her X-Factor and other show appearances might re-boost her back to No.1 with “All About That Bass” for a fourth non-consecutive week. Redfoo leaps up six places to a new peak of No.3 with “New Thang”, this week last year he was at the top with “Let’s Get Ridiculous” which rises back up to No.84 this week.

Ariana Grande was in the country this week promoting her second album and doing TV appearance, particularly the X-Factor performances where she sung a medley of her current chart entries, which helps “Bang Bang” alongside Jessie J and Nicki Minaj to leap back up seven places to its former peak of No.4, plus the track cracks ▲Platinum in sales too. The XF effect also occurs for George Ezra and “Budapest”, although he didn’t appear on the show, the song was performed by Dean Ray, which boosts the song back up eight places to No.6 this week and also to ▲Platinum in sales.

“Ugly Heart” for G.R.L. is down two places to No.5 and also slipping a couple of spots is Timmy Trumpet and Savage with “Freaks” down to No.7 and newly certified ▲Platinum, whilst dropping four places to No.8 is “Jubel” for Klingande. Paloma Faith is down three to No.9 with “Only Love Can Hurt like This” (now 2x▲Platinum) and also down three to No.10 is Lilly Wood & the Prick with the Robin Schultz remix of this weeks UK No.1 single “Prayer in C”.

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: 5 Seconds of Summer released their “Amnesia” EP this week, which helps boost the track back up six places to No.11 and the set is now ▲Platinum, and back up three places to No.13 is this week’s promo tourist Ariana Grande with “Break Free” whilst “Problem” is back up nine spots to No.29. Echosmith leap up twelve places to No.18 with “Cool Kids” and further new peaks come from Pitbull with “Fireball” (31 to 26) and Becky G with “Shower (27 to 26). XF act Jason Heerah performed the new Usher and Nicki Minaj track “She Came to Give it to You” which helps it climb to a new peak of No.32 and the track achieves Gold ● in sales.

DOWN DOWN: After two weeks at No.8 “Anaconda” for Nicki Minaj is back down four places to No.12 this week, whilst the other track to drop from the Top 10 is AJR with “I’m Ready”, which spent four weeks within the ten, peaking at No.5. Itch drops four places to No.16 with “Another Man” and also down four to No.17 is Ella Henderson with “Ghost” (now 2x▲Platinum), and dropping eight from its peak of No.15 to No.23 is Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora with “Black Widow”. Sam Smith is down six to No.24 with “Stay with Me” and Guy Sebastian also drops six to No.30 with “Come Home with Me”, which is newly certified Gold ●. Gabrielle Aplin tumbles eleven to No.34 with “Please Don’t Say You Love Me”, whilst dropping thirteen to No.35 is Eminem and Sia with “Guts Over Fear”. Dami Im is down nine to No.36 with “Gladiator” and Troye Sivan drops ten to No.43 with his “Happy Little Pill”. Dropping out from last weeks Top 50 are Duke Dumont with last weeks’ entry “Won’t Look Back” (37 to 51), “Riptide” by Vance Joy (48 to 54 and now 5x▲Platinum), Coldplay with “A Sky Full of Stars” (50 to 57) and David Guetta with Sam Martin on “Lovers on the Sun” (49 to 58).

X-FACTOR 2014: Last week the XF scored its first Top 20 entry, this week surpassing that and landing at No.15 is Dean Ray with his rendition of the George Ezra track “Budapest”. Reigan Derry’s debut at No.20 last week of “Stay With Me” drops down to No.52 this week, whilst one place lower at No.53 she debuts with her version of the Jessie J, Ariana and Nicki song “Bang Bang”, whilst expelled contestant Sydnee didn’t quite make the charts, her rendition of the London Grammar “Strong” helps the original to come back in at No.73. The weekly entrants Brother3 come in at No.91 with their version of “Pompeii” with the original by Bastille returning a few places lower at No.94, and lastly Dean Ray is down seven places to No.100 with his version of “Reckless”.

The second Top 20 debut this week comes in at No.19, and was only issued on Monday, so it’s not had a full week’s sales here yet. Calvin Harris teams with John Newman for the second single from Calvin’s forthcoming album, “Blame” which becomes his eighteenth Top 100 entry and sixteenth Top 50 placing here, whilst he is still charting with “Summer” (HP-4) which is sitting at No.80 and achieves its half-a-year on the charts this week.

A couple of weeks ago Hilary Duff spent two weeks on the charts reaching No.69 with “All About You”, which this week returns to the charts within the Top 30, coming back in at No.21 thanks to her promo tour and performing the song on this past weeks X-Factor. One place lower new at No.22 is the third single for local singer Nathaniel, this time with the upbeat track “Live Louder”, and he will be performing the track on this weeks X-Factor shows. The final Top 50 entry of the week comes in at No.44, Nickelback with “What Are You Waiting for?” which is taken from their forthcoming early November due set “No Fixed Address”. The album has already produced the chart entry “Edge of a Revolution” which climbed to No.60 a couple of weeks ago.

Lower 50: Fences with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis jump up twenty-one places to No.55 with the track “Arrows” and The Madden Brothers second entry “Dear Jan” climbs to a new peak of No.60. Illy is up a few places to No.63 with “One for the City” and back up fifteen spots to No.84 is Redfoo with “Let’s Get Ridiculous”, whilst the only other re-entry is Sara Barielles with “Brave” at No.99.

Fall Out Boy is to release their as yet untitled sixth studio album early in 2015, and the first taste from that future album is entitled “Centuries” which is new at No.59 this week. It’s the twelfth Top 100 chart entry for the group, and the song has a loop of the 1990 single “Tom’s Diner” by Suzanne Vega (HP-8, peaked late November) throughout the song.

With the release of the CD Single, 7” single and digital EP of “Amnesia” by 5 Seconds of Summer this week, a couple of the bonus tracks from the extended play also enter the charts this week, with “Daylight” coming in at No.61 and their cover of “American Idiot” in at No.89, the Green Day song having peaked at No.7 in early October 2004 (almost 10 years ago).

Lady Antebellum are set to release their fifth studio album at the end of September entitled “747”, and the first single from the album entitled “Bartender” is new at No.71, whilst another act who is about to release a new album, Missy Higgins, sees another cover/entry come in at No.81, the Divinyls mid-May 1988 peaking No.33 song “Back to the Wall”. The final new entry of the week is at No.96, “Shell Shocked” by Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa & Ty Dolla $ign with Kill the Noise, which is taken from the newly released ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ film.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Local singer/songwriter Vance Joy (real name James Keogh) takes his debut album “Dream Your Life Away” straight into the No.1 position on the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

“Dream Your Life Away’ becomes the 714th No.1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2014) and the 565th for ARIA (1983 to 2014), whilst also the 363rd album to debut at No.1. It’s the eleventh chart-topping album for an Australian act this year and the first time ever that the Liberation label have landed back-to-back No.1’s, as Vance Joy and last weeks chart-topping album for Jimmy Barnes are both on the label, with Vance’s ascent becoming the labels seventh No.1 album in Australia overall.

It’s the eleventh album with the word ‘Dream’ in its title to reach No.1 here and the seventh with ‘Life’, whilst only the third with ‘Away’ in its title, the other two being ‘Come Away with Me’ by Norah Jones (Feb 2003) and ‘Push the Sky Away’ for Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Feb 2013). The album becomes the 178th Album to reach No.1 for an Australian act, and the 200th Album by a Male Artist, plus Vance Joy become the 93rd Australian Act to reach No.1 and 23rd Australian Solo Male Artist to do so.

Last weeks No.1 debut of “30:30 Hindsight” for Jimmy Barnes is down one place to No.2 and thanks to her promo tour around the country this past week, Ariana Grande jumps back up five places to No.3 with the No.1 album from three weeks ago “My Everything”, whilst the chart-topping set from four weeks ago, The Hilltop Hoods with “Walking Under Stars” is down a place to No.4.

Paloma Faith holds at No.5 this week with “A Perfect Contradiction” and swapping places at No.6 and No.7 are Sam Smith with “In the Lonely Hour” (7 to 6) and the “Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol.1” Soundtrack (6 to 7) respectively. The other high-end debut from last week, “Bittersweet” by local artist Kasey Chambers drops six places to No.8 and holding at No.9 is Ed Sheeran with “x”. The second Top 10 debut this week comes in at No.10, the self-titled fourteenth studio album for Ryan Adams, which instantly becomes his first ever Top 10 album in Australia. His previous best was his last studio album which initially reached No.25 upon release in October 2011, but it returned to the charts in March 2012 spending two weeks at a new peak of No.16.

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: George Ezra’s boost on the singles chart with “Budapest” (TW-6) helps his album “Wanted on Voyage” back up eight places to No.20, whilst the recent tour of Queen and Adam Lambert helps their just returned set “The Platinum Collection” back up four places to No.28. The Black Keys are touring here in April 2015, and the tickets on sale have boosted their former No.1 album “Turn Blue” back up fifty-six places to No.30 this week, and currently touring here at the moment is Kanye West, so his former No.1 set “Yeezus” is back in at No.31. The same occurs for Tina Arena, who is touring the country at the moment, and her former No.4 album “Reset” is back in at No.41.

DOWN DOWN: The two albums leaving the Top 10 this week are the self-titled former No.1 for Angus & Julia Stone, which drops four to No.14 after spending five weeks within the ten, and after debuting at No.4 last week, “V” for Maroon 5 drops fifteen places to No.19. John Williamson drops eight places to No.21 with “Honest People” and the self-titled album for Royal Blood drops ten to No.25, with INXS’ “The Very Best” also down ten to No.26. The Amity Affliction tour is now headed to America, so last weeks jump after their tour here for their latest set “Let the Ocean Take Me” is back down fifteen places to No.34 and Adam Harvey sees his “Family Life” fall fifteen also to No.36. Sia is down eleven to No.37 with “1000 Forms of Fear” and Rodriguez drops again, down nineteen this week to No.39. Gabrielle Aplin tumbles seventeen to No.40 with “English Rain” and Broods see their debut album “Evergreen” tumble nineteen places to No.46. Last weeks No.14 debut for Brad Paisley, “Moonshine in the Trunk” plummets thirty-three spots to No.47 and Lana Del Rey sees her “Ultraviolence” drop down eighteen to No.49. Dropping out from last weeks Top 50 are Adam Brand (42 to 55), Milky Chance (35 to 56), The Angels (47 to 63), The McClymonts (50 to 65), Hillsong (48 to 67), Beyonce (46 to 69), Opeth (41 to 70), Linkin Park (43 to 75), Avenged Sevenfold (34 to 79) and Phil Rudd (22 to 89), whilst falling out all together from last weeks Top 50 are Dead Letter Circus with their “Stand Apart” EP (#24) and The Vines with “Wicked Nature” (#29).

There are five debuts within Top 20 this week, the first of which is Interpol with their fifth studio album entitled “El Pintor”, which enters at No.11 and becomes their second highest charting album here, their previous set “Interpol” debuted and peaked at No.7 in September 2010. New at No.13 is the second album for local country act The Wolfe Brothers, the set “Nothin’ But Trouble” becomes their highest chart accomplishment, beating the No.18 peak of their January 2013 album “It’s On”.

The fourth studio album for England act The Kooks entitled “Listen” comes in at No.15, becoming the bands third successive Top 20 album, as their two previous sets “Junk of the Heart” (HP-9, Sept 2011) and “Konk” (HP-8, April 2008) both debuted and peaked within the Top 10, Their first set “Inside In / Inside Out” originally charted here in July 2006 reaching No.87, and later returned in October 2008 where it re-peaked at No.84.

LA singer/songwriter Jillian Banks goes simply by the name BANKS, and her debut album “Goddess” comes in at No.17 this week, whilst the final Top 20 entry is in at No.18, The Tea Party with their first new album in ten years and their eighth album overall entitled “The Ocean at the End”. Back in early September 2004 they also debuted and peaked at No.18 with “Seven Circles”, plus this becomes their sixth Top 20 album in Australia.

The tenth studio album for Robert Plant is “Lullaby… and the Ceaseless Roar”, and it debuts at No.22 this week, becoming his twelfth solo album to chart here (nine studio and three collaboration albums), and is his first entry in four years, as he last charted in September 2010 with “Band of Joy” which debuted and peaked at No.18.

The Counting Crows see their seventh studio album “Somewhere under Wonderland” debut at No.27 this week, becoming their eighth album to chart here (six studio, one best and one live album), and they last charted with their fifth album “Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings” (HP-22, April 2008). Swedish melodic metal band In Flames take their twelfth studio album “Siren Charms” into the charts at No.33, becoming their highest charting album in Australia, as they first charted with their eleventh set “Sounds of a Playground Fading” which debuted and peaked at No.50 in July 2011. And the final entry to the fifty is Justin Townes Earle with his sixth studio album “Single Mothers”, coming in at No.48, and also becoming his second to chart here, as he first charted in April 2012 with his fifth album “Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now” (HP-51).

Lower 50: Jack White leaps back up sixteen places to No.52 with “Lazaretto” and after leaving last week, Pink returns to the Top 100 at No.53 with “Greatest Hits… So Far”. Rodriguez drops down five places to No.54 this week with “Searching for Sugar Man”, which also picks up a Gold ● in sales, whilst the other newly certified (also Gold) album this week is Illy with “Cinematic” at No.62. Robbie Williams’ “Swings Both Ways” album is back up twenty-three places to No.60 and with his tour here starting next week, Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience – The Complete Experience” is back up ten places to No.78. Returning albums this week include “30 #1 Hits” for Elvis Presley at No.81, “Kick” for INXS at No.92, the just toured Bob Dylan with “The Essential” at No.96, and current tourist Kanye West with “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” at No.97, whilst the final returning album is “Atlas” by Rufus at No.100, whilst mention should also go to Avicii’s “True” album which leaves this weeks charts, having notched up 51 weeks within the Top 100 (almost a year!!).

Seattle electro duo ODESZA see their second album “In Return” become their first ARIA Albums chart entry this week, coming in at No.58. Another duo, this time from Canada and a punk group, but also their second album and first Australian charts appearance is Death From Above 1979 with “The Physical World” which is new at No.74 this week. And a third duo entering, this time local artists Client Liaison, whose debut self-titled EP comes in at No.76 helped by their current national tour.

Australian singer/songwriter Steve Smyth sees his second album entitled “Exits” enter at No.80 this week, whilst another local act in Thirsty Merc sees them debut at No.90 with “Acoustic Anniversary Album”, becoming their fourth charting album and first in over four years. The final entry is at No.99, “Live at the Rainbow” for recent tourists here Queen, the music was recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London forty years ago in 1974.

1. Shake It Off2. All About That Bass3. New Thang4. Bang Bang5. Freaks6. Jubel7. Ugly Heart8. Budapest9. Prayer In C10. Anaconda11. Blame12. Break Free13. I'm Ready14. Only Love Can Hurt Like This15. Live Louder16. Cool Kids17. All About You18. I'm Not The Only One19. Another Man20. Changing

All about that bassShake it offLive louderNew thangBang bangFreaksJubelBlameBudapestUgly heartPrayer in cCool kidsI'm readyI'm not the only oneOnly love canBreak freeShowerAnother manChangingAll about you